The artist’s home
Ricklundgården was created by the couple Emma and Folke Ricklund in the late 40’s. Together they built their dream villa up on a hill in the middle of the mountain village Saxnäs. The view over the lake Kultsjön and the Marsfjäll massif in the background is amazing. It was an incredibly bold project that became a piece of architectural history.
Today, Ricklundgården is a museum and art residence. Artists from all over the world come here, all year round, to soak up nature and create art in the two studios.
The museum
Walk up the stone stairs, sprinkled with beautifully flowering poppies and enter through the door of the whitewashed villa. Take off your shoes and hang up your jacket in the cloakroom, now you are standing inside Emma Ricklund’s home. Here time has stopped and everything has been preserved as when she left us in 1965. A unique artist’s home with both local and exotic art. Welcome!
Art in residence
Do you get inspiration by the shifts in nature and do you feel tranquility in silence? Whether you want to find peace or inspiration, Ricklundgården’s studios are created for creation. Artists have come here to work for more than 80 years.
Ricklundgården is today an international art residence with two studios and guest artists come from all over the world.
NEWS
On the surface, Ricklundgården may seem calm and tranquil, but underneath, inspiration and creativity burst forth, like all the changes in nature. Candles light up during the dark winter nights and maybe a fire sparks in the fireplace. But soon it blossoms in Emma’s flowerbeds and the slate paths are framed by greenery. Emma Ricklund was a very talented woman full of visions and we continue to develop and create in her spirit.
EMMAS
Our art education workshop and meeting place for people of all ages.
KRAM
“Emma Ricklund’s foundation receives support of roughly 3.1 million from the Heritage Fund for the project “KRAM”
“KRAM (Creativity, Relationships, Everyone’s equal value, Courage to be yourself)” will develop a new cultural-pedagogical working method where children’s and young people’s needs, reflection, wishes and the artistic process are at the center. The project will build three physical art education nodes in Saxnäs, Dikanäs and Vilhelmina and also create an outreach mobile activity based on the new way of working.
News
“The little show with the big heart”
The one who waits for something good
We at EMMA’s art education workshop, under the auspices of the KRAM Heritage Fund project, have been working all autumn with our small but very dedicated ensemble.
This has resulted in something we call “The little show with the big heart”.
The premiere takes place at Marsfjäll Mountain Lodge on Friday, January 10.
Book food and your place by calling 0940-70003.
We really hope that we will see each other in the new year and that our little show can set a nice mark and a fun start to 2025.
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The last Dinner Club for this year has been completed.
-big THANK YOU to everyone who came on Monday!
Santa’s Christmas Eve food with classic side dishes was on the menu and the evening ended with Bingo!
AN EXTRA BIG THANK YOU to Niklas Andersson who helped us with the porridge! We and all the guests who ate really appreciate your cooking skills and willingness to help. Thanks!
THANKS also to Jonathan Johansson who helped us before serving, your effort was without exaggeration, invaluable.
We have been so incredibly happy that our idea with the Dinner Club has been appreciated. On each occasion we have had full tables, a hall and entrance flooded with clothes and shoes and there has been a loud murmur of people talking to each other. Thanks everyone!
~ We welcome feedback or suggestions for ideas about our arrangements. Have you loved something, want more of a specific event, do you miss us doing something? Please send us an email to: emmassaxnas@gmail.com
Now there are only two occasions of Advent coffee at EMMAS, tomorrow from 08.30 and Thursday 19/12 at the same time.
Tonight is also the last opportunity with the Craft Club with Anna, from 18.00.
Then there will be some Christmas time off during the red days to start with a big bang in the form of a small show, Friday 10 January at the Lodge. More information about this will be available on our channels shortly.
Many thanks to our artist in residence Kyle McKenzie
Many thanks to our artist in residence Kyle McKenzie for your interesting talk on public paintings / murals.
Very interesting to learn about the importance of art in, for us, another part of the world. Kyle has traveled here from Joplin, Missouri, USA, to work on his art.
We were very inspired and it would have been fantastically exciting if Kultsjödalen and Vilhelmina municipality also had a large, public and perhaps historical mural of some kind.
Thanks to Saxnäs Fjällskola who participated.
The artist talk took place yesterday afternoon at EMMAS in Saxnäs.
Read more“I LOVED MY TIME AT RICKLUNDGÅRDEN VERY MUCH. IN THE SURROUNDINGS EVERYTHING WAS NEW TO ME – NATURE, PLANTS, COLORS, SOUNDS, VIEWS, SPACE – EVERYTHING SO DIFFERENT FROM HOME. AND I COULD WORK UNDISTURBED AND WITHOUT COMMITMENTS FROM THE OUTSIDE. I WAS GONE AND COULDN’T BE INTERRUPTED AND THE WORLD TURNED INTO A MORE COMFORTABLE SELF. THE IMPRESSIONS I GOT WERE THROUGH THE WINDOW AND WALKING TO THE GROCERY STORE AND I LOVED TO HAVE IT THAT WAY. I SLEEPED WHEN I WAS TIRED, ATE WHEN I WAS HUNGRY. WORKED HOW LONG I WANTED. THE STUDIO WAS ALSO FANTASTIC. THE SPACE IN IT, THE VIEW FROM IT, AND THE CLOSENESS FROM THE BREAKFAST TABLE TO WORK. I AM REALLY HAPPY AND GRATEFUL FOR BEING GRANTED TO BE THERE.”
Susanne Vollmer
”I SPENT A MONTH AT RICKLUNDGÅRDEN IN THE SUMMER OF 2019 TOGETHER WITH MY PARTNER MATZ ENGDAHL, WHO ARE DECOR PAINTER AND MUSICIAN. THE STUDIO IS LOCATED IN AN INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENT RIGHT BY A LAKE AND CLOSE TO SEVERAL MOUNTAINS. IT IS INSPIRING TO TAKE PART OF WHAT EMMA AND FOLKE RICKLUND CREATED IN THIS PLACE AND THE DESIRE THAT BEAMS OUT OF THE HOUSE. FOLKES STUDIO IS SPACIOUS AND BRIGHT WITH HIGH CEILINGS AND A SMALL INDOOR BALCONY WITH A VIEW OF THE MOUNTAINS. WE HAD A FANTASTIC MONTH WITH EXCURSIONS – WE WALKED, WERE AT A FESTIVAL IN VILHELMINA, VISITED FATMOMAKKE AND AT THE SAME TIME WE FOUND PEACE FOR FOCUSED WORK. AT THE END OF THE MONTH, WE INVITED TO AN EXHIBITION AND CONCERT IN FOLKES STUDIO FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THE AREA AND WHOM WE HAD MET DURING OUR TIME THERE. I CAN REALLY RECOMMEND RICKLUNDGÅRDEN TO FIND PEACE FOR ARTISTIC WORK IN A UNIQUE PLACE.”
Fanny Hellgren
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Friday – Sunday: Closed
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